Maison
Where Maison comes from
A spelling variant of Mason.
Along the way
- 1988First appearance#5,751 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1997Mostly boys from hereUntil now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
- 2016Peak, #782304 babies named Maison — more than any year before or since.
- 2025The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,290.
In the dictionary
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
No widely known Maison turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.